Mysteries set in Alberta
Discover mystery stories set in the beautiful province of Alberta
Books Set in Alberta (29)
Verona Montero loves calling herself a private dick because it makes her sound like she’s in a 1940s detective movie. And…
Private investigator Verona Montero hikes fifteen kilometers to a cliff-top lodge in the Canadian Badlands to dodge cheating…
In the hottest spring on record, Lethbridge's coulees are parched and tempers are rising. When a prominent rancher is murdered,…
His memories of her were always there… hidden but not forgotten. He only needed the key to unlock them. Now he has one week…
Twenty years ago, Livingston, Alberta, was shaken by a series of unsolved, unconnected brutal murders. Now, a city councillor…
When a feisty dude ranch owner, a woman of ‘a certain age,’ famous for dumping men and nailing murderers, teams up with…
An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape…
In September 1933, at Wewelsburg Castle in Bavaria, the Nazi elite unleashed an ancient force upon the world—one of the…
11th-century France, Pope Urban II commands a clandestine gathering under a cloak of secrecy. The quest? To secure ancient…
Ice fog descends upon Dickens, Alberta, growing thicker and thicker until Heidi Crawford can no longer see the coniferous…
The Judas Legacy
by W.M. Leesman
Part of: The Apocalypse
Espionage, kidnapping, Paranormal, Political, Thriller
Masada, AD 73. As the Roman X Legion closes in, the defenders of the ancient fortress make a final, desperate decision-hide…
Crime has never been so funny. A corpse, a goat yoga disaster, a spitting llama, a mechanical bull gone berserk, and an…
After a dinner-party clash between entrenched oil interests and liberal Hollywood insiders, only Michael and Tyrone, the…
Randy and Steve have finally tied the knot and head south to Puerto Vallarta to celebrate. Unfortunately, Randy’s romantic…
After retiring from a long career in accounting, Abby Foster expects a peaceful life, but those plans vanish when she and…
When Zoe and her teenage daughter discover an ice-covered corpse at her boss’s mountain chalet, ex-Mountie Lacey McCrae…
Bone Beds of the Badlands transports readers to the heart of dinosaur country in the most gripping and terrifying Dylan…
With her career in tatters and her marriage receding in the rear-view mirror, ex-RCMP corporal Lacey McCrae trades her uniform…
Anxiety is the watchword at most school reunions, with side-eye comparisons of greying hair and extra pounds around the…
Wherever Randy Craig goes, trouble seems to follow. With the help of her friend Denise, Randy has landed a summer job with…
Bones Are Forever
by Kathy Reichs
Part of: Temperance Brennan
Forensic, Police Procedural, Suspense, Women Sleuths
Tempe begins the case in Montreal before traveling to the Northwest Territories and Alberta to track a missing woman and…
For anyone other than Randy Craig, a contract to do archival research and web development for Alberta's famed Rutherford…
Despite her best efforts to lead a peaceful life, murder, mystery and mayhem continue to follow reluctant sleuth Randy Craig.…
Former University of Alberta lecturer Randy Craig is now working part-time at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College, and struggling…
When artists, writers, and performers gather at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the serene mountain setting is meant to inspire…
How dangerous can words be? The University of Alberta's English Department is caught up in a maelstrom of poison-pen letters,…
Summer has come early to the town of Drumheller, Alberta. The Screech Owls were expecting deep winter – just like back home…
Code red at the supermall
by Eric Wilson
Part of: Tom & Liz Austen Mysteries
Adventure, Juvenile, Middle Grade
When Tom and Liz Austen arrive at West Edmonton Mall with their father—who is helping train mall security—they’re expecting…
The Judas Conspiracy by John Ballem is a political thriller set against the backdrop of an Alberta separatist movement.…